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100 billion planets in the Milky Way
Our Milky Way Range has at least 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the discovery of three extrasolar planets thanks to microlensing.
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Postpone historic spacecraft
The first commercial flight to the international space station ISS of SpaceX's Dragon Airship, was postponed.
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America conceals information about Russian spacecraft?
In the latest dramatic development of the failed Russian launch of the Phobos-Grunt, it seems that the US military has removed many links on a website that tracks the da…
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The US denied the failure of the Phobos-Grunt train
A US State Department spokesman denied that the failed launch of Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe was caused by a powerful electromagnetic wave emitted by an American radar.
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In 2013, Brazil and Ukraine will launch joint satellites
On January 20, during the meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Konstantin Grischenko, who was visiting Brazil, the host country co-owner Antonio Patriota reaffirmed t…
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Russia reused Soyuz after its failed launch
Five days after the missile launch failed, on December 28, Russia's Soyuz rocket system was returned to service. And this time, the Soyuz boosters successfully placed 6…
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NASA's laboratory on Moon's orbit
NASA officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said the No. 1 Gravity Recovery Laboratory (GRAIL-A) entered the Moon's orbit at 22:01 GMT on De…
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Russian spacecraft will fall next week
Russia admits the fragments of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will likely fall back to the ground next week.
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Hacker plans to launch its own satellite
Hackers are planning to launch their own information satellites into space, while developing ground information stations to track and communicate with them.
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Pink nebula Omega
The new image of the Omega Nebula captured by the Southern Observatory (ESO) VLT telescope is one of the clearest shots taken from the ground. Pink dust in the center of…
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Minerals in the Moon are found abundantly in Australia
A mineral is brought to Earth by the first people to set foot on the Moon and is thought to be unique at the surface of
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Imitation crystal won nobel prize and meteorite model
According to the latest announcement, it seems that the only natural specimen of the quasicrystal is from the universe falling to Earth. If accurate, this finding will c…
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Discover the first 4 peripheral planets in 2012
According to the researchers, the discovery of peripheral planets does not stem from the Kepler space telescope of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) or any other space tele…
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Close-up of the 'super deep hole' moon
In November 2011, NASA's LRO spacecraft flew through the Aristarchus wormhole of the moon. The photographs showed the diameter of the pit up to 40km and its depth of mor…
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New computer model about Moon Titan
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange and fascinating world covered in dense methane atmosphere. With an average surface temperature of -185ºC and a diameter less t…